Document 6601377

The political fragmentation of the Roman Empire also
meant a reduction in the scope of economic, social and cultural
relationships that had developed across different hierarchical
levels and between distant places. New social and cultural
relationships developed in the polities that followed the Roman
Empire. Nonetheless, the survival of regional and interregional
interactions assured a certain homogeneity in political, cultural
and social forms across post-Roman Europe. This phenomenon
has been the topic of exciting academic debate in the last decade
and different interpretations and methodological approaches
have been proposed.
In this workshop we intend to focus discussion especially on
the issue of interactions beyond the local level between 300 and
800 CE in order to assess 1) to what extent these interactions
were affected by the end of the Roman Empire as a political
entity, and 2) how these connections contributed to lasting
patterns that shaped the post-Roman world in economic, cultural
and political terms.
The papers presented in this workshop explore long
distance and regional connections along the Mediterranean and
far beyond the former Roman Empire. Scholars will analyse
textual and archaeological evidence from a variety of disciplines
and approaches, including isotopic and GIS analysis, network
theory, post-colonial theory and thorough textual and theological
analysis. The main goal is provide a comprehensive assessment of
the developments of regional and interregional interactions in
the long period that goes roughly from the last two centuries of
the Roman Empire to the rise of the Abbasid and Carolingian
Empires.
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The theme of this workshop has grown out of research
undertaken through the ENFLAWE project (‘Episcopal Networks
and Fragmentation in Late Antique Western Europe’). Funded by
the EU-Marie Curie Actions and hosted at the Division for
Byzantine Research (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian
Academy of Sciences-OEAW), this project analyses episcopal
interactions in the late fourth and fifth century from a social
network approach.
Linking the
Mediterranean
Venue:
Seminar Room (Ground floor)
Austrian Academy of Sciences
12-14, Wohllebengasse
1040
Vienna
Transport:
U-Bahn (Underground), Taubstummengasse (Line U1)
Karlsplatz (lines U2/U4)
Straßenbahn (Tram), Gußhausstraße (Line D)
Paulanergasse (Lines 1, 62)
Any other enquiries, please contact:
david.natal@oeaw.ac.at
Regional and Trans-Regional
Interactions in Times of Fragmentation
(300 - 800 CE)
Vienna 11th-13th December 2014
International Workshop
Sponsored by:
Thursday 11th December
13.15-14.45 Lunch
17.30
Keynote Speech: 'Did the saints link the postRoman world?’ Bryan WARD-PERKINS (Oxford)
14.45-16.30 Changing Political Horizons in the postRoman World
Discussant: Max DIESENBERGER (OEAW, Vienna)
Friday 12th December
Glenn McDORMAN (Princeton) ‘Diplomatic Networks and
the Rules of War in the post-Imperial West’
8.30-9.00 Welcome coffee
9.00-11.00 Imagined Geography in
fragmentation
Discussant: Katharina MEINECKE (Vienna)
times
of
Charles STANG (Harvard Divinity School) ‘Centres and
Peripheries between the Eastern Mediterranean and the
Silk Road’
Clemens GANTNER (OEAW, Vienna), ‘Demarcating Rome:
The papal strategy of Othering and the re-invention of
Greeks’
Santiago CASTELLANOS (León), ‘From Rome to Merida:
political interactions in the Visigothic hagiography’
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
Johannes PREISER-KAPELLER (OEAW, Vienna) ‘Peaches to
Samarkand. Long distance-connectivity, small worlds and
socio-cultural dynamics across Eurasia, 300-800 CE‘
17.00-18.45 Ecclesiastical Networks in Late Antiquity
Discussant: Kate COOPER (Manchester)
Jonathan CONANT (Brown) ‘Romanness and the limits of
the Empire’
Veronika WIESER (OEAW, Vienna), ‘Joined in friendship and
faith: The ascetic communities of Primuliacum and Nola as
spiritual crossroads’
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
David NATAL (OEAW, Vienna), ‘Relics, geographical
imaginations and episcopal networks in Victricius of
Rouen’
11.30-13.15 Universal Church & Shrinking Polities.
Discussant: Geoffrey DUNN (ACU Brisbane)
Francesca CONSELVAN & Philipp DÖRLER (Vienna) ‘The
‘Greek’ Monastery of San Saba: its Oriental Identity and its
Political Strategies of Balance’
Julia HILLNER (Sheffield) ‘‘Rationalising’ Christian asylum:
monastic exile and forced clerical ordination under
Justinian’
Yuri MARANO (Collège de France) ‘Church-Initiated
Markets and Fairs in Late Antique Italy: an Economic and
Social Reappraisal’
Carmen CVETKOVIĆ (Göttingen) ‘Niceta of Remesiana and
pro-Nicene Christianity in the last decades of fourthcentury Illyricum’
Saturday 13th December.
8.30-9.00 Coffee
9.00-11.00 Long-distance Trade and Fragmentation
Discussant: Bryan WARD-PERKINS (Oxford)
Thomas J. MacMASTER (Edinburgh) ‘Slave-trading between
centre and periphery in the seventh century: a crucial
commerce?’
Norman WETZIG (Bonn) ‘The East-West trade in the Late
Antique Mediterranean and the “herds” of oriental
merchants. A reassessment of the written and
archaeological sources’.
Katie HEMER (Sheffield) ‘On the utmost border of the
earth’: Long-distance trade and contact with early
medieval western Britain’
Jacopo TURCHETTO (Padova) Changing Roads and
interactions in Byzantine Cappadocia (Turkey): An
Archaeological and GIS-based verification’.
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.15 The Migration of Belief
Discussant: Danuta SHANZER (Vienna)
Marianne SÁGHY (CEU-Budapest) ’Holy Commerce: Eastern
Migrants, Models, Networks in Late Antique Gaul’
Andra JUGĂNARU (CEU-Budapest) ‘Linking Cappadocian
Monasticism to the Latin West. The Transmission of Basil’s
Asketikon’
Anthony DUPONT (Leuven) ’Regional or Transregional
Development of the Patristic Theology of Grace? The North
African Theological Tradition and Augustine as Case Study
of Theological Regional Diversity’
13.15-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.00 Concluding Remarks: Claudia Rapp (Vienna)